FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Gus. 1254-1256. 1890. 645 authorized and directed to make good any such deficiency so found to exist to the persons justly entitled thereto, by issuing to them patents for an egual quantity of the unoccupied, unappropriated, and unreserved pub ic lands of the United States in the- State of California, not mineral, to be selected by them, respectively, within one yrear next after the passage of this act, and not afterward, and in acts not less than the subdivisions provided for in the United States land laws, and, if not surveyed when taken, to conform, when surveyed, to the general system of the United States land surveys; and the issuance and acceptance of patents under this act shall be deemed {pug, and taken as a release to the United Statesof all claims of all persons mu °° so found to be entitled as aforesaid to any and all lands not embraced in the survey made under the confirmation of the said grant in the preamble of this act mentioned. Approved, October 1, 1890. CRAP. 1255.-An act making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the OGOUCLIN}. ap priation for compensation of members in the House of Representatives and ‘*‘w-_"-
from Territories.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is House or Repreunt hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise me appropriated to supply a deficienréy in the approglriation for compen- neneamy appmpen sation and milealige of members o the House of epresentatives and delegates from erritories, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, _ eighteen hundred and ninety, the sum of ten thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars. Approved, October 1, 1890. CHAP. 1256.-An act defining certain duties of the Sergeant—at—Arms of the Octoberi, 1890. House of Representatives, and for other purposes. ———-—--—· Be it enacted by the Senate and House 1.% Reqrisentattves of the United States of America in Congress asse led, at it shall be the House ot mpmspduty of the Sergeant—at-Arms of the House of Representatives to “Q}',°,;, 0, semmb attend the House during its sittings, to maintain order under the •*»A¤¤¤ direction of the Speaker, and, plen mg the election of a Speaker or Speaker pro tempore, under the direction of the Clerk, execute the commands of the House and all processes i sued by authority thereof, directed to him by the Speaker, keep the accounts for the pay and mileage of members an delegates, and pay them as provided by law. Sec. 2. That the symbol of his office shall be the mace, which symupxeremeaew. shall be borne byx him while enforcing order on the iloor. Sec. 3. That the moneys which have been, or may be, appropriated rp assume moneys for the com usation an mileage of members and delegates s all be f{,’{,§§g"gPg§jf“*°“ °°‘ paid at the Tieasury on requisitions drawn by the Sergeantat-Arms ’ of the House of Representatives, and shall be kepp, isbursed, and accounted for by him according to law, and he sha be a disbursing officer, but he shall not be entitled to any compensation additional No additional comto the salar now fixed by law. ¥’°"""'°'* Sec. 4. That the Sergeant-at-Arms shall, within twenty days after Bona. entering upon the duties of his office, and before receiving any portion of the moneys appropriated for the compensation of mileage of members and delegates, give a bond to the nited States. with two or more sureties, to be approved by the First Comptroller of the Treasury, in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, with condition for
